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Executive and Legislative documents laid before the General Assembly of North-Carolina [1870; 1871]

4 DocTTMENT No. IS. Sessioii
armed, desperate and lawless men, organized and set on foot
without antliority of law, into the said County and occupy the
same by military force and suspend the civil authority and the
Constitution and laws of the State, and did, after the days and
times last aforesaid, and before the time of impeachment in this
behalf, through and by means of such armed, desperate and
lawless men, arrest many peaceable and law-abiding citizens of
said County of Caswell, then and there about their lawful busi-ness,
and did detain, hold, imprison and otherwise maltreat and
injure many of them, to wit : John Kerr, Samuel P. Hill,
William B. Bowe, IS'athaniel M. Eoane, Frank A. Wiley, Jesse
C. Grifath, J. T. Mitchell, Thomas J. Womack, A. G. Yancey,
John McKee, A. A. Mitchell, Yancy Jones, J. M. Neal,
Barzillai Graves, E-obert Hoane, James R. Fowler, M. C.
Hooper, James C. Williamson and Peter H. Williamson, when,
in fact and truth, there was no such or any insurrection in said
County of Caswell, and he, the said William W. Holden, Gov-ernor
as aforesaid, well knew that such and said proclamation
was utterly groundless and false, and that there was no insur-reetion
in said County of Caswell, and that all the civil authori-ties,
both State and Comity in said County, were peacefully and
regularly, in the full, free and unrestrained exercise in all re-spects
of the functions of their oiiiees, and the Courts were all
open and the due administration of the law was unimpeded by
any resistance whatsoever, whereby the said William W.
Holden, Governor as aforesaid, did then and there, and in the
way and manner, and by the means aforesaid, commit and was
guilty of a high crime in office against the Constitution and
laws of said State, and the peace, interest and dignity thereof.
Akticle III.
That the said William W. Holden, Governor of the State
of North Carolina, on the iifth day of August, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the
County of Orange, in said State, did then and there unlawfully,
and Vv'ithout any lawful v/arrant and authority, and in defiance

4 DocTTMENT No. IS. Sessioii
armed, desperate and lawless men, organized and set on foot
without antliority of law, into the said County and occupy the
same by military force and suspend the civil authority and the
Constitution and laws of the State, and did, after the days and
times last aforesaid, and before the time of impeachment in this
behalf, through and by means of such armed, desperate and
lawless men, arrest many peaceable and law-abiding citizens of
said County of Caswell, then and there about their lawful busi-ness,
and did detain, hold, imprison and otherwise maltreat and
injure many of them, to wit : John Kerr, Samuel P. Hill,
William B. Bowe, IS'athaniel M. Eoane, Frank A. Wiley, Jesse
C. Grifath, J. T. Mitchell, Thomas J. Womack, A. G. Yancey,
John McKee, A. A. Mitchell, Yancy Jones, J. M. Neal,
Barzillai Graves, E-obert Hoane, James R. Fowler, M. C.
Hooper, James C. Williamson and Peter H. Williamson, when,
in fact and truth, there was no such or any insurrection in said
County of Caswell, and he, the said William W. Holden, Gov-ernor
as aforesaid, well knew that such and said proclamation
was utterly groundless and false, and that there was no insur-reetion
in said County of Caswell, and that all the civil authori-ties,
both State and Comity in said County, were peacefully and
regularly, in the full, free and unrestrained exercise in all re-spects
of the functions of their oiiiees, and the Courts were all
open and the due administration of the law was unimpeded by
any resistance whatsoever, whereby the said William W.
Holden, Governor as aforesaid, did then and there, and in the
way and manner, and by the means aforesaid, commit and was
guilty of a high crime in office against the Constitution and
laws of said State, and the peace, interest and dignity thereof.
Akticle III.
That the said William W. Holden, Governor of the State
of North Carolina, on the iifth day of August, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the
County of Orange, in said State, did then and there unlawfully,
and Vv'ithout any lawful v/arrant and authority, and in defiance